— Craig Thomas (@Craigthepatriot) January 12, 2015
Unexpectedly:
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Even Obama flack Josh Earnest is admitting, “Yeah, we should have sent someone with a higher profile to that Paris march,” as Allahpundit paraphrases today at Hot Air, linking to Joel Pollack’s take at Breitbart.com that Obama risked a domestic backlash from his far left socialist justice warrior base if he had flown to Paris this weekend after skipping out on Ferguson. As Allah writes in response:
Pollak’s theory makes sense … except that Eric Holder did go to Ferguson so he probably could have marched yesterday without much flak from the lefty base. Same goes for Kerry. The secretary of state typically shies away from domestic politics so he’d have a ready excuse for marching in Paris but not in Ferguson. Look at it this way: The fact that Earnest is now admitting that someone should have been there gives police protesters an easy chance now to make the point Pollak’s imagining. If the White House regrets not sending someone to Hollande’s rally, do they also regret not sending anyone to the protests in Ferguson or New York? Exit question one: Do we really care that Obama didn’t show up for what was, after all, a well-meaning but toothless gesture? Exit question two: Is the real reason Obama stayed home perhaps because the White House has criticized Charlie Hebdo for its provocations in the past and saw no reason not to boycott until they got pounded yesterday from the right and left alike?
Hey remember when John Kerry was nattering on about America passing “the global test” in 2004? Good times, good times.
But to return to the Daily News headline atop our post — I’m not sure if Obama let “the world” down when his absence from the event wasn’t much of a shock to at least half the country yesterday. Flawed messengers though they were, John McCain, Mitt Romney and (especially) Sarah Palin tried their best to warn the nation of Obama’s myriad flaws in 2008 and 2012, which is why they had to be destroyed by Obama’s Democrat operatives with bylines, who are busy circling the wagons to defend the Unicorn Rider once again today:
Slurp. RT @MarkHalperin @BarackObama can’t win. Criticized for going to Paris in the past. Now criticized for NOT going to Paris.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 12, 2015
And to return to the theme of McCain’s “World’s Biggest Celebrity” ad from 2008, Jake Tapper reminds Jay Carney, Earnest’s predecessor, that “Certainly you’ll grant the point that there’s something wrong when this season’s ‘The Good Wife’ had higher Obama representation, with a cameo from Valerie Jarrett, than this very important rally, perhaps the most important rally in Europe in a generation.”
To be fair, The Good Wife’s production values and art direction are much slicker than the crude illustrations that populate the typical issue of Charlie Hebdo. That’s the sort of commitment to your artistic craft that can really get you noticed with this administration.
Related: Elsewhere at PJM, Kathy Shaidle proffers an analogy on the past week’s events simple enough for even the Obama White House to understand: “Indiana Jones in Reverse.”
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